Can Muslim Americans trust Joe Biden to be an anti-Islamophobic president? Or, will they face more of the same in a long history of American Islamophobic policy?
As an individual, there are so many identities (or labels) that apply to me: a Pakistani, a Muslim, a man, a historian, and so on. On their own, these identities are not too different from millions of others in the world. But it is the combination of all these identities that made me pursue a career as a historian, and it is also the combination of all these identities that acted as the biggest roadblock in doing so.
Jackson J. Spielvogel’s Chapter 8 titled “The Muslim Empires, 1450-1800” provides a review of the history of three major empires, the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal, which ruled over the region extending from North Africa to the Indian subcontinent.